Love Poems – Page 2826
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The Marseillaise
Anonymous translation from the French / YE sons of freedom, wake to glory! / Hark! hark! what myriads bid you rise! … -
A Court Lady
Her hair was tawny with gold, her eyes with purple were dark, / Her cheeks’ pale opal burnt with a red and restless spark. / Never was lady of Milan nobler in name and in race; … -
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England
The Breaking waves dashed high / On a stern and rock-bound coast, / And the woods against a stormy sky … -
The Reformer
All grim and soiled and brown and tan, / I saw a Strong One, in his wrath, / Smiting the godless shrines of man … -
Freedom of the Mind
Written While in Prison for Denouncing the Domestic Slave-Trade / HIGH walls and huge the body may confine, / And iron gates obstruct the prisoner’s gaze, … -
The Present Crisis
When a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth’s aching breast / Runs a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on from east to west, / And the slave, where’er he cowers, feels the soul within him climb … -
The Little Cloud
[1853] / AS 1 when, on Carmel’s sterile steep, / The ancient prophet bowed the knee, … -
Brown of Ossawatomie
John Brown OF OSSAWATOMIE spake on his dying day: / “I will not have to shrive my soul a priest in Slavery’s pay; / But let some poor slave-mother whom I have striven to free, … -
Words for the “Hallelujah Chorus”
John Brown’s body lies a-moldering in the grave, / John Brown’s body lies slumbering in his grave— / But John Brown’s soul is marching with the brave, … -
John Charles Frémont
THY 1 error, Frémont, simply was to act / A brave man’s part, without the statesman’s tact, / And, taking counsel but of common sense, …
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